Hair-pin.



No. 845,502; 1 PATENTED FEB. 26, 1-907.

W. ADLER. HAIR PIN.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 8, 1906.

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WILHELM ADLER, OF HEIDELBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

HAIR-PIN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 26, 1907.

Application filed November 8, 1906. Serial No. 842.482.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, \VILHELM ADLER, a subject of the King of Hungary,residing at Heidelburg, in the county of Allegheny and State ofPennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inHair-Pins, of which the following is a specification, reference beinghad therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements inhair-pins; and the invention has for its object the provision of novelmeans for retaining a pin within the hair and preventing the same frombeing lost or surreptitiously removed.

Another object of this invention is to provide a simple and inexpensivehair-pin that can be easily and quickly manipulated to lock the same inthe hair.

With these and other objects in view, which will more readily appear asthe invention is better understood, the same consists in the novelconstruction, combination, and arrangement of parts throughout theseveral views, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improvedhair-pin. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional View of the same' Fig. 3 is asimilar View of a modified form of construction.

To put my invention into practice, I employ an ordinary hair-pin 1, andattached to one of the legs 2 of the same is a sleeve 8, carrying anupwardly-extending projection 4, having an outwardly-extending pin 5.The upper end of the sleeve 3, projection 4, and part ofthe pin 5 arehoused by a casing or cap 6, suitably secured to the pin 1. The front ofthe casing or cap is concave, as at 7, to conform to the contour of apersons thumb when pressing inwardly upon the pin 5 to swing the leg 2outwardly to the dotted position shown in Fig. 2 of the drawing.

The resilient nature of the pin normally maintains the leg 2 in theposition shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings in full lines. Consequentlywhen the leg 2 is forced outwardly to the dotted-line position, Fig. 2,and retainel there while the pin is being inserted in the hair therelieving of pressure on the pin 5 permits the leg 2 to return to itsnormal position and become clamped within the hair.

In Fig. 3 of the drawings I have illustrated a modification wherein theconcave front 8 of the casing or cap is detached from the casing or cap9 and secured to the leg 2 of the hairpin 1. The sides 10 of the casingor cap 9 are cut away, as at 11, to permit of the concave front 8 beingpressed or forced inwardly to the dotted position shown in Fig. 3, thisposition of the front 8 maintaining the leg 2 at an angle while the pinis being inserted in the hair.

My invention particularly resides in the provision of novel means formoving one of the legs of a hair-pin, whereby the same can be moresecurely locked in the hair than if the pin was simply inserted therein.

I do not care to confine myself to the type of pin in connection withwhich the invention is used, and such changes in the size, proportion,and minor details of construction as are permissible by the appendedclaim may be resorted to without departing from the spirit and scope ofthe invention.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A hair-pin embodying two legs integrally connected at one end, a casingor cap fitted over the connected ends of the legs and having a concaveface, and means connected to one of the legs of said pin and extendinginto the concave face of said casing or cap for moving said leg awayfrom the other leg of said pin.

In testimony whereof I affiX my signature in the presence of twowitnesses.

WILHELM ADLER.

Witnesses:

C. KLOSTERMANN, MAX H. SROLOVITZ.

